Connecticut western news., 1887-05-18
HERE AND THERE.

Winsted has appropriated $1OO for observance of Memorial day.
 Judge Henry Morris and Mrs Morris, of Springfield, Mass, celebrated their golden wedding last Monday.
 MT John G. Wetmore continues in a critical condition, and suffers greatly from nervous prostration and sciatic troubles. He is confined to his bed most of the time Winsted Herald.
 Simsbury is favored by the gift of S1O,O ,OOO from Mir Amos R. Enc, of the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, which is to be used in the erection of a build ing for public library in that town.
 Robbins Battell is soon to erect memo rial chapel in Norfolk on the former site of the old public school building It is to be built of stone and will be quite handsome structure.
 On Wednesday, May II, President Cleveland appointed James W. Hyatt, of Norwalk, Conn.,, to be treasurer of the United States, to succeed Conrad | N. Jordan, resigned
 Mir and Mrs Bolwick, of Weston, were killed while crossing the Danbury & Norwalk track at South Norwalk Satur- day morning. They were an aged couple driving home from shopping tour.
 Associate Justice, William B. Woods, of the United States supreme court, died at Washington, D. O., on Sunday. He was native of Newark. Ohio, where he was born on Aug. 3, 1924. He I graduated at Yale college in 1S45. R. H. Eddy, the well-known solicitor of patents, died of heart disease at his home in Boston, last Friday night, aged 75 years. He was probably the oldest patent solicitor in this country and was widely known. He leaves a widow. Governor Lounsbury has appointed Samuel B. Gorham, Charles Burr Todd and Aaron Treadwell, of Bedding, and Isaac N. Bartram, of Sharon, as a com mittee to procure a suitable memorial to be erected on the Israel Putnam camp ground in Bedding.
 Moore and Doughty are contemplat- ing a balloon voyage in the great bal loon which Moore has been construct ing this winter. They expect to start from St Louis, Mo-, with week 8 stock of provisions on board, and mak @ as long Q journey as they can towards the land of the rising sun, taking advan- tage of wind power and trusting con- siderably to the railroad cars and Provi- dence to bring them back to little old Connecticut Winsted Press.
 The oldest Mason has just died again. The Winsted Press says: "Abijah Ressegue has just died at Ridgefeld aged 96 years. For over 60 years he was landlord of the hotel, in one of the beams of which is imbedded a cannon ball fired in the revolutionary war. He heard the church bells toll when Washington died. He joined the Masonic order in 1912 and was conce- ded by the fraternity to be the oldest Mason in the state.
 The Brewster Standard says: Pre- vious to the going into effect of the Interstate Commerce law special rate bill enabled the Valley Pond mining company at Pawling to transport the product of their mines at $4 50 per car load. By the new tariff they are com pelled to pay at the rate of S14 per car load. With such an exorbitant freight rate cessation of work must follow, and thus large force of dependent employees will be thrown out of work. y Samuel w. Bently, the veteran rail- road conductor, has been connected with the New Haven and Northampton railroad company for thirty seven years, commencing as brakeman, afterwards he was a baggage master and for thirty. three years has been conductor, having at various times run nearly all the trains on that road. He is now running on the Collinsville branch. Mir Bentley says that he has never lost day in consequence of an accident, save once, when he had the misfortune to have his foot severely lacerated under a cal wheel.
 The time for holding the annual fail of the Duchess County Agricultura Society has been fixed for September 27, 28, 29 and 30. .. A Newburgh phy sician has of6ciated at four thousand births, and he has several large book: filled with records. .. .Deyo Britt. O. Kingston, is the owner of Wyandottt chick which has four legs. Decoration day is to be suitably observed in Ameni. for the first time in it's history. The exercises will be under the direction O the G. A. R. There will be speaking a collation. served, and the decorating of soldiers graves. Millerton Tele gram.